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Abhik Roy
Education
Western Michigan University
Ph.D. in Program Evaluation
Kalamazoo, MI
2016
Michigan Technological University
M.S. in Mathematics
Houghton, MI
2007
West Virginia Wesleyan College
B.S. in Mathematics
Buckhannon, WV
2001
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Current - 2016
- Advising masters and doctoral students.
- Evaluating various projects and grants.
- Submitting papers for peer review publications.
- Teaching evaluation and methods based classes with a focus on data science.
- Survey development in Qualtrics with HTML, CSS, & Javascipt.
- Building and pulling data from multiple APIs, creating visualizations, creating static and interactive reports, and building apps within the R/RStudio environment.
Data Analyst
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
2016 - 2014
- Created scripts to pull data from the organization’s Oracle database.
- Prepared evaluation reports for various stakeholders.
- Led and presented findings from small and large scale qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies.
Select Projects
Data Scientist & Program Evaluator
WVCTSI: West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2017
- Analyzing large data sets using frequentist and Bayesian methods.
- Conducting local and multi-site mutli-cluster evaluation studies.
- Developing/validating items and distributing customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
- Pulling, wrangling, and visualizing secondary data in R.
- Mentoring future graduate social data scientists.
- Total Amount: $20,000,000
- Website: PERC
Program Evaluator
Research Initiative: A Holistic Cross-Disciplinary Project Experience as a Platform to Advance the Professional Formation of Engineers
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2020
- Advising engineering faculty and graduate students on implementation of study methods.
- Conducting quantitative and qualitative studies on undergraduate student experiences within grant related programs.
- Total Amount: $200,000
Program Evaluator
GAUSSI: Generating, Analyzing, and Understanding Sensory and Sequencing Information: A Trans-Disciplinary Graduate Training Program in Biosensing and Computational Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
2020 - 2017
- Conducting biannual evaluations of multiple grant related programs.
- Developing and distributing customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
- Pulling, wrangling, and visualizing secondary data in R.
- Writing annual program and National Science Foundation reports.
- Total Amount: $3,013,779
Program Evaluator
Cultivating Inclusive Identities of Engineers and Computer Scientists: Expanding Efforts to Infuse Inclusive Excellence in Undergraduate Curricula
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2018 - 2017
- Conducting formative evaluations of multiple grant related programs.
- Developing and distributing customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
- Pulling, wrangling, and visualizing secondary data in R.
- Writing annual program and National Science Foundation reports.
- Total Amount: $2,000,000
Select Talks
Best of Both Worlds: Affordances of Mixing Machine Learning and Qualitative Content Analysis
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
2022
These Aren’t Random Words Just Strung Together?: Using Machine Learning and Pretty Visualizations to Discover Topics in Articles.
American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
virtual
2020
Why Is It That Writers Write but Fingers Don’t Fing? Using Machine Learning and Lexemes to Make Sense of Nonsense.
American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
Minneapolis, MN
2019